Example sentences of "was [adv] possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of this study , it was additionally possible to investigate ( a ) a variety of domain-specific dictionaries and compare their performance with the general dictionary , and ( b ) the extent to which collocations compiled from one domain could contribute to the recognition of text from another . |
| 2 | But it was obviously possible to book another P A. I mean that 's |
| 3 | The SPD maintained that it was only possible to fund the reconstruction of eastern Germany by increasing taxes for the well-off . |
| 4 | To our surprise it was only possible to predict in half the patients the point at which they would block their coronary artery . |
| 5 | With the steady decline in the Southern protestant population until recently , it was only possible to have government funds for such schools if these schools were reasonably economical . |
| 6 | No similar possibility existed with the Soviet Jewish community , since it was only possible to have relations with the Soviet Union through its government . |
| 7 | A crowd then assembled and threw pepper at the police , causing such a commotion that it was only possible to get the one-legged prisoner to the police station with the assistance of twelve constables . |
| 8 | At this high level , it was only possible to make a broad assessment of these requirements , and further ideas were developed as the study progressed to lower levels of detail . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , in the present study it was only possible to make comparisons among symptomatic children , because ethical constraints precluded measurement of UOS pressure from children who were well . |
| 10 | The importance of Fritz and Hitzig 's work lay in their demonstration that with brief , low-intensity electrical stimulation it was only possible to evoke movement from a restricted area of the cerebral cortex , hence the name ‘ electrically excitable motor cortex ’ . |
| 11 | Watching the Nijinsky recreation it was suddenly possible to understand why . |
| 12 | It was thus possible to assemble a bridge pier and lower it complete onto the river bed . |
| 13 | It was thus possible to balance the attraction of the matter with the repulsion of the cosmological term . |
| 14 | It was thus possible to write a program that allocated scores to all the possible legal moves in a given position . |
| 15 | The houses gave way to shops and the slope levelled off , then he was in a narrow main street where it was easily possible to hop on one leg from one gift shop to the next … all of them closed until Easter . |
| 16 | Cursive in nature , secretary was a distinct hand initially , and written upright , but slopes were soon introduced ( in the interests of writing at speed ) and by 1637 it was already possible to speak of ‘ sett ’ , ‘ facill ’ and ‘ fast ’ hands , or , less opaquely , ‘ engrossing ’ ‘ upright ’ and ‘ sloped ’ . |
| 17 | Let us suppose that it was somehow possible to banish the feelings which give rise to such ugly behaviour in human beings . |
| 18 | John had claimed it was just possible to go backwards ( as it were ) , but you must talk to him about that . |
| 19 | It was just possible to see some buildings in the distance . |
| 20 | The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate . |
| 21 | It was just possible to make out the 300 foot radio mast at the Davistow Airfield , an ex-military airfield well worth a visit , offering splendid moorland isolation and three concrete runways , the longest being 1550 metres . |
| 22 | Out to sea the beam of the lighthouse swept a great arc every fifteen seconds ; on one side of the headland were the lights of the town and harbour , on the other it was just possible to make out a line of cliffs receding into the darkness . |
| 23 | Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone . |
| 24 | It was something to do with homing in more precisely on what had really happened , seeing if it was ever possible to pin down the truth . |
| 25 | We shall see that it was always possible to settle chattels personal upon trusts for various persons with limited interests ( see pp. 86–7 , 101–5 ) . |
| 26 | For it was always possible to argue that a primordial molecular arrangement had been designed in such a way that the universe , as we know it , would be the outcome . |
| 27 | While it is certain that it was always possible to approach Napoleon III via a courtier , the real intermediaries between the Emperor and the outside world , in so far as it necessitated his personal intervention , were those employed in what was called the Civil Cabinet . |
| 28 | For cartons of Kent cigarettes and a few videos , it was always possible to circumvent the regulations limiting abortion to the victims of rape or incest , or life-threatening complications . |
| 29 | By the end of the 1980s it was nonetheless possible to say that the USSR was more directly involved in the affairs of the world community than at any previous time in her history , not only at a formal intergovernmental level but also through a variety of personal , commercial , sporting , scientific and other channels . |
| 30 | But since marriage was entered into for reasons of social , political and financial convenience it was hardly possible to celebrate love except outside it . |